There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?
ROBERT KENNEDYPunishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force.
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The future does not belong to those who are content with today Rather, it will belong to those who can blend vision, reason, and courage in a personal commitment.
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Nations around the world look to us for the leadership not merely by strength of arms but by strength of our convictions.
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There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the security of the comfortable past which, in fact, never existed.
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All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don’t. And if our times are difficult and perplexing, so are they challenging and filled with opportunity.
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Ultimately, America’s answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
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In your hands lies the future of your world and the fulfilment of the best qualities of your own spirit.
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He tells so many lies that he convinces himself after a while that he’s telling the truth. He just doesn’t recognize truth or falsehood.
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The enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and abiding practice of any western society.
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GNP measures neither our courage, our wisdom neither our compassion. It measures everything except what makes life worthwhile
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Too often we honor swagger and bluster and the wielders of force; too often we excuse those who are willing to build their own lives on the shattered dreams of others.
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A life without criticism is not worth living.
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All of us will ultimately be judged on the effort we have contributed to building a new world order.
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Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.
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Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
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Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force.
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